Allen Iverson didn’t wait for tip-off to start taking shots against his former team.

Iverson leveled a new round of criticism at the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday, hours before he faced them for the first time since his trade to Denver two weeks ago.

Iverson said he felt a player of his stature and tenure should have been listened to when he criticized the Sixers’ style of play last month, a condemnation that led to his departure from Philadelphia after 10tumultuous seasons.

“Just to hear me out. I think any coach would, and any organization would,” Iverson said. “… When you’re losing basketball games, 12 of 14, 18 of 20 basketball games, you should listen to somebody because something obviously isn’t working.”

Iverson said he wouldn’t greet 76ers coach Maurice Cheeks before or after the game at the Pepsi Center.

“I don’t feel like I have a need to. It is something that I don’t want to do. For what?” Iverson said.

“I haven’t anything to say to Mo,” Iverson added. “Or to my teammates. I miss them. I never had any problem with any of those guys. None of them on the whole roster. … I never expected Billy (King, the 76ers’ team president) to let it happen the way it happened. I never expected Mo to let it happen. I would have expected for him to fight for me. He has a job to do and he works for somebody else. I lost a lot of respect for guys that I had respect for around there.”

Passing: Jim Karvellas, a longtime broadcaster of NBA games and the Cosmos soccer team, died at his Tampa, Fla., home on New Year’s Day of complications from prostate cancer, son Chris Karvellas said. Jim Karvellas was 71.